Add the following line as a source in your graphical package manager (In Ubuntu: System->Administration->Synaptic package manager; then Settings->Repositories and then finally Third party software), or edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list and add it there.

deb http://apt.etherpad.org all .

apt-get update
apt-get install etherpad

Answer the questions (if any, depends on your system settings)

/etc/init.d/etherpad start

Other Linux distributions
Download the .tgz and unpack it
Follow instructions in README

Note: Originally published on the 19th of Dec 2009, Revised on the 10th of March 2010

]]>http://mclear.co.uk/2010/03/10/installing-etherpad-on-debian/feed/21Installing Etherpad on Windows (CYGWIN)http://mclear.co.uk/2010/02/18/installing-etherpad-on-windows-cygwin/
http://mclear.co.uk/2010/02/18/installing-etherpad-on-windows-cygwin/#commentsThu, 18 Feb 2010 19:56:00 +0000http://mclear.co.uk/2010/02/18/installing-etherpad-on-windows-cygwin/The new documentation for how to deploy Etherpad Lite on Windows is available here — You should refer to this.

In Windows:
– Install Java, Scala, MySQL, mysqlconnector and Mercurial under Windows.
– JAVA should be set to the java executable.
– JAVA_HOME should be set to the main jdk directory.
– SCALA should be set to the scala executable.
– SCALA_HOME should be set to the main scala distribution directory.
– PATH should contain $JAVA, $SCALA, and mysql
– MYSQL_CONNECTOR_JAR should be set to the mysql-connector JAR file included in the mysql-connector download.

– Install Cygwin.

These Files are needed in /etherpad/trunk/ since the archive holds files both in the etherpad and the infrastructure subfolder.

Make a backup of your bin folder

Extract the contents of the above .Rar file to the bin folder

Run bin/rebuildjar.sh

After installation run bin/run-local.sh

Full docs coming later. Post questions as comments and I should be able to answer.

All props goto Jutsi for discovering the solution. Feeling confident without the full docs? Follow the unix docs for config settings and you should be good to go.

You may want to make this script run on start upupdate-rc.d nrpe defaults

]]>http://mclear.co.uk/2010/01/18/installing-the-nrpe-client-daemon-and-nagios-plugins-on-debian/feed/0Configure Etherpad Pro AFTER installationhttp://mclear.co.uk/2009/12/21/configure-etherpad-pro-after-installation/
http://mclear.co.uk/2009/12/21/configure-etherpad-pro-after-installation/#commentsMon, 21 Dec 2009 23:11:00 +0000http://mclear.co.uk/2009/12/21/configure-etherpad-pro-after-installation/So you have Etherpad installed and working? Now you want to allow users to have sub-domains and their own accounts? Maybe you want the privacy settings, I don’t know…

First off: Got your * dns wildcard in place? You are going to need it.